It took the Russians too long to defend themselves from Washington’s rich and famous NGOs, but finally they understood that these US-financed operatives were a dagger at Russia’s heart. Russian prosecutors have banned them. Paul Craig Roberts wrote many columns about the Russian government’s insouciant toleration of Washington’s Fifth Columns operating against them. And some of these… Read More

In what experts see as Moscow’s latest bid to rein in civil society, Russian senators released a list Wednesday of 12 foreign NGOs whose work they believe poses a threat to national security, and who should thus be declared “undesirable” and prohibited from operating in the country. The Federation Council — Russia’s upper house of parliament — compiled a so-called “patriotic stop-list,” consisting of seven American organizations, two Ukrainian diaspora groups, two… Read More

One of the most high-profile foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Russia was decidedly keeping its head down when the BBC asked it to comment on the Kremlin’s move to keep tabs on the NGO sector. Russia’s intelligence services have spoken out about NGOs With the future of vital aid projects at stake, it had decided… Read More

This week Russia banned the activities of the US-Congress funded NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy or NED, on Russian territory. This is the first NGO on a list of about 12 ‘undesirable’ organizationsto be shut down under a law that came into effect a few months back. The law basically says that any organization… Read More

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Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) which is a NUSOJ affiliate raised alarming security concerns against media workers and trade union leaders at various levels by militias funded by the Brussels based International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Following the ITUC funded drama in Mogadishu on 29 December, 2015, which a Somali national, Omar Faruk Osman… Read More